Advice sought on 386 system

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From: Christopher M Mauritz
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 15:28

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A friend turned me on to the following ad today:

386-25mhz
4 meg RAM (0 wait)
200 watt power supply
AMI BIOS / Clock Calendar
2 serial / 1 parallel / 1 game port
1 32 bit slot
5 16 bit slots
2 8 bit slots
TEAC 1.2 and 1.44 meg floppies
Mitsubishi MR535 65 meg HD (24ms)
Adaptec 8K cache controller (2FD/2HD) - transfer rate=1020K/sec
Sony 1024X768 .25 dot pitch monitor
Orchid Pro Designer II display card with 512K RAM
(expandable to 1024K)
101 key Keyboard 
MS-DOS 3.3 or 4.01 w/GW Basic
1 year Warranty / On-site service
60 money back guaranty

Price:  $2695.00

The name of the company is EPS Technologies, Inc. from
Jefferson, South Dakota and the ad was from PC Magazine.

Has anyone had experience with this company?  This price
seems really great.  Is it too great? :-)

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
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Subject: Advice sought on 386 system
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